moonwalkern.
/ˈmuːnˌwɔːkə/, U.S. /ˈmunˌwɔkər/, /ˈmunˌwɑkər/ 1. A sleepwalker. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun] > sleepwalking > one who
noctambuloa1631
noct-ambler1680
noctambulant1685
noctambulist1731
noctambulec1740
sleepwalker1747
night-walker1753
somnambulist1794
somnambulator1822
somnambule1837
moonwalker1950
1950 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Add. Moonwalking, sleepwalking outdoors in bright moonlight.—Moonwalker.
2. A person who walks on the moon; an astronaut.
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society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > astronaut or traveller in space > traveller to moon
moonman1935
lunarnaut1965
moonwalker1969
1969 Times 3 June (Suppl.) p. iii/1 The two moon-walkers will be in the lunar module's upper, or ascent stage.
1994 Guardian 1 July ii. 28/1 If..lunar voyages had become commonplace, the moonwalkers themselves would seem no more exotic now to the rest of us than Concorde pilots.
2007 G. Heiken & E. Jones On Moon 456 All of the moonwalkers adapted to lunar gravity quickly and easily.
3. A person who performs the moonwalk (see moonwalk n. 2).
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > other popular 20th-century dances > [noun] > dancer
bunny-hugger1914
line dancer1928
slam dancer1981
body-popper1983
slammer1983
moonwalker1986
mosher1990
1986 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 23 Feb. vii. 6/1 Singer Michael Jackson and his brothers backed into a neighborhood moonwalker in the 1984 Pepsi commercials.
1988 M. Jackson (title of film) Moonwalker.
1993 Sports Illustr. (Electronic ed.) 27 Sept. Then he tosses an 18-yarder to Michael Jackson—the wideout, not the moonwalker.
1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Electronic ed.) 25 Nov. It will not be the first time the dancing moonwalker has appeared in front of the cameras. Jackson gave film a go in 1978 when he appeared as a scarecrow in The Wiz.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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